Headlines

JPost

Netanyahu hits back at Obama: I know what’s best for Israel, not you

A day after US columnist Jeffrey Goldberg quoted US President Barack Obama as saying that Israel under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not know what is in its own best interest, Netanyahu visited the Gaza border Wednesday, was told that December was the quietest month in the last 12 years, and essentially replied to Obama: “Yes I do.”

“I think everyone understands that only Israel’s citizens will be the ones to determine who faithfully represents Israel’s vital interests,” Netanyahu said on a visit to an army base near Gaza in his first direct response to Obama’s reported criticism. “Over the last four years we stood up against strong pressure, and I will continue to do so for Israel’s security.

Blowback

Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.

Trackbacks/Pings

Comments

Yes you have Bibi and bho/team are doing all they can to put ‘pressure’ on you to do as they demand. Stand strong Bibi and don’t let that anti-American/anti-Israel worm bho tell you what you MUST do for your country.

That would be genocide, since Palestinians belong to a fictional country and that makes them a separate race from the other 300 million Arabs. Or something.

The Rogue Tomato on January 16, 2013 at 12:40 PM

Every !@#$% ‘country’ in that whole region is a modern fiction, and modern borders are the results of Western attempts to put nice neat lines on a map where there haven’t BEEN nice neat lines since the time of King David.

Israel, Palestine, wtf-ever, they’ve all been occupied by God-knows-who and God-knows-when. I say we just let the current occupants sort out their borders without one single peep!

From the food we eat, to the car we drive, to the health care we choose….Obama thinks he knows what’s best for everyone regarding everything. He’s just that smart.

Or so he thinks. Obama strikes me as one of those people who’ve been told all their life that they’re smarter than everyone else, even though there’s no basis for that assertion. At least I’ve seen no evidence to back up that he has anything other than average intelligence.

We are about to vote and no one cares what Obama thinks. Israel is thriving and there is not a damn thing Obama, the Palestinians, or the Muslim world can do about it, sorry. You’ll just have to kill us all if you don’t like it.